2015-10-21 15:24, Harish Patil: > > > >2015-09-11 17:42, Rasesh Mody: > >> From: Harish Patil <harish.patil at qlogic.com> > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Harish Patil <harish.patil at qlogic.com> > > > >Please explain your change a bit more. > > > > > > SR-IOV is supported using bnx2x poll mode driver running as VF driver and > native linux driver running as PF (in host/hypervisor). There is no issue > while running with the PF driver which is at the base version as that of > PMD. However, there is a compatibility issue between newer out-of-box PF > drivers with older VF driver. So the newer VFs would also need to send > BNX2X_VF_TLV_PHYS_PORT_ID (among other TLVs) to differentiate between > newer and older VFs.
So the title should be "update VF to support new PF drivers". Please put the detailed explanation in the commit message.
